Re: "Bug barricade", how about "Snake Barricade?"

[Doug Winterburn]

Every nasty little rattler I've come across in AZ seems to want to be as far away from me as I want to be away from him.

-Doug

[Fred the Red Shirt]

Yeah, I understand that. I'd not want any venemous _anything_ around my house either.

[Fred the Red Shirt]

I met an emergency room physician from Ohio while traveling in Alaska (where there are no snakes). She asked me if I could guess which state in the US had the highest incidence of snakebite. The answer was South Carolina. A large number of the cases were golfers bitten by copperheads.

[Larry Blanchard]

My wife won't even look at a picture of a snake! Once when we were living in Virginia, she startled a blacksnake and the whole neighborhood heard her scream. I'd never before (or since) seen a snake so scared that every muscle in its body was knotted up! It was trying to sneak off at about an inch a fortnight :-). I took it out in the woods and turned it loose.

BTW, blacksnakes, while harmless, are the most agressive snake in the US. A male will actually chase and bite you if you disturb him during mating season. It's somewhat humourous when he's so small that his teeth won't penetrate your skin :-).

[Charlie Self]

Fred notes:

No one in my area of VA would use one of these coil-the-hose in a bowl set-ups, either. I've been told the reason is that copperheads like to get in and curl up. True? Maybe. Maybe not. This is also an area where snakes are said to be capable of moving as quickly as a running man...from what I've learning, even a quick snake is out of speed at about 2.5 mph.

Charlie Self

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. Dan Quayle

[Scratch Ankle Wood]

Lots of strange local lore about snakes. In the bowl may certainly be true -- SWMBO found one in her one of her flower pots last year. About 8" long. Lot of screaming over a little garter snake.

As for out running people, I've heard that one. According to Knoxville Zoo the mambas from Africa are the only ones fast enough -- 18 mph from a dead stop in just a couple seconds if memory serves me and that was 15 years so I won't insist on it. People seem to think they'll jump 20 feet to get you and I've heard plenty of eye witnesses to this. They are the same ones who have seen the hoop snakes that will grab their tail in their teeth and roll along -- I guess they get rolling so fast that this is how they catch people. Amazing the things people will believe about snakes.

[Charlie Self]

Should have heard mine when she saw me pick up an under foot long green snake from the hammock crossbar one day. I figured he was better off in the grass than under me. She shrieked so loud I threw that poor snake at least 20'!

Charlie Self

Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child. Dan Quayle

[Alan McClure]

My last wife and I honeymooned at one of those Pocono HM resorts 22 years ago. They told us it rained most of the week we were there.

We're still married and I still consider her my last wife regardless what happens.

ARM

[Fred the Red Shirt]

Maybe I shouldn't ask this but just what did the monkeys do with the ducks they stole?

[Mo' Sawdust]

They ate the ducks.